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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2008, 04:36:54 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on December 30, 2008, 04:06:10 PM
Holy crap I was SO just thinking about that monstrosity whilst scrolling through this thread.  I'm sorry but Dickens blows.  Ew ew ew.   Bitch slap me all you want for sayin' it, that would be much more pleasurable than reading any of his boring drivel. Same goes for Steinbeck.  :P   :thatsright:

My daughter just finished Grapes Of Wrath and Of Mice And Men and wanted to know why such a depressing ass mope was so famous.
She more or less called him the founder of the Emo movement. :-)
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2008, 04:38:08 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 30, 2008, 04:36:54 PM
My daughter just finished Grapes Of Wrath and Of Mice And Men and wanted to know why such a depressing ass mope was so famous.
She more or less called him the founder of the Emo movement. :-)

Your daughter is brilliant ;)  lol 
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2008, 04:38:49 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 30, 2008, 04:36:54 PM
My daughter just finished Grapes Of Wrath and Of Mice And Men and wanted to know why such a depressing ass mope was so famous.
She more or less called him the founder of the Emo movement. :-)

I liked Of Mice and Men and The Pearl, but was neutral on Grapes of Wrath.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2008, 04:39:44 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on December 30, 2008, 04:35:51 PM

Well, I won't start in on the festivities as early as you, but I should leave here by 5pm and I'll need to swing by the house and pick up the vodka and change clothes (I gotta pretty myself up for you).  :wink:

Dude totally no rush!  Trey and I are pre-partying around 3ish.  Then he's going to work for a couple hours and I'm picking him up again for party partying.  lol  :)   So whenever you are ready, bring it.  
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2008, 05:05:20 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on December 30, 2008, 04:39:44 PM
Dude totally no rush!  Trey and I are pre-partying around 3ish.  Then he's going to work for a couple hours and I'm picking him up again for party partying.  lol  :)   So whenever you are ready, bring it.  

You drunk already = good time.   :-)
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2008, 05:20:37 PM »
Quote from: Sweet Dee on December 30, 2008, 04:06:10 PM
Holy crap I was SO just thinking about that monstrosity whilst scrolling through this thread.  I'm sorry but Dickens blows.  Ew ew ew.   Bitch slap me all you want for sayin' it, that would be much more pleasurable than reading any of his boring drivel.  Same goes for Steinbeck.  :P   :thatsright:

Absolutely, I think I made it farther than Mia but not by much, and that was by driving my eyes across the pages one word at a time by an effort of will.  I think I made it about 50 pages.  I expect Englishmen and Anglophiles could relate to it, particularly the former when it was written, but I just couldn't get my mind engaged with the story line due to the ponderous personalities, relationships, and descriptions that left me totally uninterested in the fate of any of them.  Much of what Dickens wrote was paid by the word, and it sure shows in that tome.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2008, 09:05:47 PM »
A bit of coolness.

we are trying to rent the cabin I occupied for the month of May for a week to ten days this August so the whole family can go out and see the Olympic penninsula in Washington state. We wont be able to do much if any camping due to the fact that we will be flying out and unable to schlep the gear, but it should be a blast!
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2008, 09:10:27 PM »
I liked Steinbeck.....

A good current writer that makes her characters come alive in very topical books is Jody Picoult. I highly recommend Nineteen Minutes and My Sister's Keeper. The first one is about a high school shooting similar to Columbine and the second is about a family with a teminally ill child with cancer who has a second child for a bone marrow donor for the first one. Heavy reading, but they were both quite good.

asdf....that sounds great!!!
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2008, 11:22:30 PM »
I liked Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden more than Of Mice And Men.  I remember reading The Pearl only because it was in my literature book in HS.  Steinbeck was worried about being labeled as a Bolshevik or Communist and a liberal after Grapes was published.  I think his wife pushed him and helped him complete it. 
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2008, 11:37:59 PM »
Well.  My next-door neighbors are definitely gone.  Again.  This is probably the third set of "neighbors" that have rented that particular apartment in the last two years. 

I wonder who the next set of victims will be.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2008, 12:09:32 AM »
Tonight is the Coast to Coast AM New Year's Prediction show.  They're always "interesting". :mental:


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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #36 on: December 31, 2008, 12:47:01 AM »
Oh, Lord... some weirdo is on saying that Denis Kucinich will be the Light, the Way, and the Truth.  Freaks.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #37 on: December 31, 2008, 10:45:51 AM »
Eudora Welty

You cannot live in Mississippi without knowing about her. 

Wonderful soulful Southern woman.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #38 on: December 31, 2008, 11:24:56 AM »
Quote from: debk on December 30, 2008, 09:10:27 PM
I liked Steinbeck.....

A good current writer that makes her characters come alive in very topical books is Jody Picoult. I highly recommend Nineteen Minutes and My Sister's Keeper. The first one is about a high school shooting similar to Columbine and the second is about a family with a teminally ill child with cancer who has a second child for a bone marrow donor for the first one. Heavy reading, but they were both quite good.

asdf....that sounds great!!!

I like Picoult. I bought Nineteen Minutes and Plain Truth and loved them both. She's formulaic but writes so well you get into it.

And yes Frank, Welty is a great writer. We have a lot of great writers in the South.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2008, 11:48:16 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on December 31, 2008, 11:24:56 AM
I like Picoult. I bought Nineteen Minutes and Plain Truth and loved them both. She's formulaic but writes so well you get into it.

And yes Frank, Welty is a great writer. We have a lot of great writers in the South.

Dixie...you need to get My Sister's Keeper.....so very unpredictable.
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Re: Tuesday. Is there a Catcher in your Rye?
« Reply #40 on: December 31, 2008, 12:05:32 PM »
^I will. I was going to treat myself to a few books after the holidays. Thanks!
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